Patents
Most notable IBM Austin patents:
- Segment Migration to show retail customer buying patterns from season to season as an interactive display.Clicking on each retail group in the summer shows how they migrate to various retail groups in the fall when school starts. Similarly clicking on each retail group in the fall, will show what retail groups these customers came from.(https://patents.google.com/patent/US6622126B1/en)
- Enhanced Genetic Algorithms to accurately model solution lifetimes using age-specific operators. It was thought that modeling a genetic algorithm to more closely follow a human lifetime would produce more meaningful results. By that I mean solution would go through age groups where a subset of operators can modify the solution to create a new solution. However as the given solution ages then other operators become active and perhaps terminate the given solution for violating a developer law.(https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070112698A1/en)
- Automated Latent Star Schema Discovery to discover hidden schemas in a production database via table sizes, data, and column statistics. Companies like IBM attempt to sell their DB/2 tools like CubeViews to new customers. However, these customers want to see it in action. The IBM consultant needs to find what star schemas are present and how we can use them to showcase DB/2 CubeViews(https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090265335A1/en)
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- Human-Computer Interaction & User Experience: Numerous patents focus on novel ways for users to interact with systems (e.g., eye-tracking via webcam, scrollbar tracking, mouse hover, and custom input devices).
- Data Analytics & Search Relevance: Patents on measuring user engagement (e.g., scrollbar duration, product wishlist features, search popularity models for data-driven optimization methods.
- Data Mining & Machine Learning: Patents on statistical models, data cleaning and analysis, genetic algorithms for improved customer scoring, predictive modeling, and pattern recognition.
- Software Engineering and Systems Design: Patents related to JMX MBeans, logging frameworks, and custom command environments.
- Security & Privacy: Patents that describe encryption keys, digital rights management, and control over document permissions and attributions.
- Distributed and Embedded Systems: Vending machine networks, IoT-based elevator systems, and RFID-based devices.
- Programming Languages & Concurrency: Constructs such as enhanced try/catch blocks, retry logic, default finally clauses, and specialized concurrency blocks.
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